Darrell Issa

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News about Darrell Issa, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Mar. 27, 2014

Rep Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, accuses Internal Revenue Service commissioner John Koskinen of stonewalling the investigation into the IRS's treatment of conservative groups. MORE

Mar. 7, 2014

Congressional memo; Republican Rep Darrell Issa’s silencing of the microphone of his Oversight and Government Reform committee’s ranking Democrat, Rep Elijah E Cummings, may have provided chance to paint him as an overzealous inquisitor. MORE

Dec. 3, 2013

Rep Darrell Issa proposes amending the 1910 Height of Buildings Act, which sharply limits height of buildings in Washington; defenders of law say it preserves unobstructed views of the capitol's historic architecture. MORE

Nov. 13, 2013

Investigation into rollout of Affordable Care Act is turning into nasty public relations war that will be on full display at hearing of House oversight committee, chaired by Republican Rep Darrell Issa. MORE

Aug. 21, 2013

Four midlevel State Department officials placed on administrative leave after deadly 2012 attack on United States mission in Benghazi, Libya, have been reinstated by Sec of State John Kerry and given new assignments; Republican Rep Darrell Issa of California accuses State Department of shirking accountability. MORE

Jul. 7, 2013

Mark Leibovich article profiles Kurt Bardella, Washington superstaffer and press secretary for Rep Darrell Issa, Republican of California; notes their professional relationship, in which Bardella agreed to share e-mails with Leibovich, led to Bardella's public downfall. MORE

Jun. 17, 2013

Editorial criticizes Rep Darrell Issa for refusing to make public the full text from interviews conducted with Internal Revenue Service officials regarding inappropriate targeting of conservative groups. MORE

May. 28, 2013

Several top aides to Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state, are targets of the latest subpoena for information about the drafting of talking points after the siege last fall on an American compound in Benghazi, Libya. MORE

May. 18, 2013

Rep Darrell Issa, chairman of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, issues subpoena to Thomas R Pickering, chairman of independent panel that investigated attacks on American diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. MORE

Jun. 25, 2012

Rep Darrell Issa, in television interview, says there is no evidence that White House officials were involved in a cover-up related to the embattled Fast and Furious gun-smuggling program, contradicting earlier statements by Speaker John A Boehner; Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, reiterates that his investigation is focused only on the Justice Department. MORE

Jun. 21, 2012

Editorial criticizes Rep Darrell Issa and the House oversight committee for citing Attorney General Eric Holder Jr for criminal contempt during their investigation of the botched Fast and Furious operation; notes that what should have been a routine legal matter has become fodder for political combat. MORE

Jun. 16, 2012

Rep Darrell Issa says that he is willing to postpone a vote on holding Atty Gen Eric H Holder Jr in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department turns over more records as promised in the investigation of a flawed gun-smuggling inquiry. MORE

Jun. 8, 2012

Rep Darrell Issa and Attorney General Eric H Holder Jr clash once again during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee on the botched gun trafficking case known as Operation Fast and Furious; Issa accuses Holder of withholding information requested in a 2011 subpoena. MORE

It was a day for summit meetings at the White House. First, President Obama met with Republican Congressional leaders fresh off their mid-term election victories. Then Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met with the incoming Republican committee...

A member of the Jewish Defense League was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in a plot to bomb the King Fahd mosque in Culver City and the office of Representative Darrell Issa, a Lebanese-American Republican. The defendant, Earl Krugel,...

The party at the Los Angeles Century Plaza hotel got rolling at 4 p.m. Tuesday. It was a party for Arnold Schwarzenegger, but Darrell Issa, the millionaire congressman who bankrolled the effort to oust Gov. Gray Davis, was greeted as recall royalty. ...

October 8, 2003, Wednesday

The Sacramento directory offers no listing for Charlotte Goland, and so I have no choice but to show up, unannounced, at the address on her check. I don't usually hunt down strangers in their homes, but unusual times call for unusual methods. This...

Arnold Schwarzenegger brushed off a debate challenge from Gov. Gray Davis today and picked up the endorsement of the man who bankrolled the current recall drive, Representative Darrell Issa. Mr. Davis issued the challenge this afternoon at an...

With just two weeks to go before the recall election for Gov. Gray Davis, a federal appeals court today removed a legal obstacle to the vote, ruling that it would be held on Oct. 7, as scheduled. Proponents of delaying the election, who had...

IN 1981, when President-elect Ronald Reagan was preparing his first Inaugural Address, an urgent request arrived from his fellow Republican Paul Laxalt of Nevada. ''There was a concern among Reagan's conservative base that he might start modifying...

The unified front of the Democratic Party in California was shattered today when two prominent Democrats openly defied Gov. Gray Davis, announcing that they would join the race to replace him should he lose the recall vote on Oct. 7. Mr. Davis and...

To the Editor: It's truly ominous when a wealthy politician pays for the recall of a duly elected governor (''California Recall Backer Feels Heat,'' news article, July 23). If California is the trendsetter that it is purported to be, what's to...